Dimension Pro patches with tuning issues?

Somebody was complaining about a female vox patch recently, and others confirmed it. There might be more.

There is, and always has been, tuning issues with Dim Pro. Some of the bases are out by a mile. Something we just have to live with I think.

The male choir vox is badly off and is effectively useless - I don't understand how it got in there, because every patch must go through a tuning process.  Pity there isn't a fine tuning option in DP. The female one's not so bad, but I use the free DSK Choir VST instead.  There are a lot of Bass patches and I haven't really looked into them - I hope they're not all off.

tons of tuning issues with dim pro


makes it practically useless  if you ask me

I wouldn't really mind much for a fine tuning option if the patches were tuned correctly to start with... I think it's a pity that some off the patches are off because Dim Pro really has some great sounds but the chance of stepping on a bum one is a turn off.

I thought the people of Cakewalk were professional? What pro would play out of tune so badly? It double frustrating since I bought it before it came with Sonar. Get with it Cake!

I am curious...does anyone use Dimension Pro or have you shelved it because of the tuning problems....I myself haven't used it for a very long time as I don't trust any of the samples...and did I mention I paid $300 for it!

Jimbo 88


Yeah,  i don't think a fine tuning option would do any good  'cause the tuning issues are different from one sample to the next

Do you mean that patches having multiple samples on different keys would be different tuning?
 
That's pretty serious and something Cake should fix.
 
I've used VSampler to import samples from different places, in this case horns stuff, and had to tune every sample just a tiny bit. But that went very well.
 
The engine of Dimension really should be extended for free with finetuning stuff. Then you can fix the patches by yourself at least.
 
There will always be tiny differences in clock frequencies on different soundcards and for professional use the need for such an adjustment is eminent, overall tuning, and individual as well when sources are done on so many different machines.
 
If the fix cost a little money would be ok, I think, but it must be fixed if to be part of professional tools for studios/daws all over.
 
Did Cake ever comment on this?

gwp99

I am curious...does anyone use Dimension Pro or have you shelved it because of the tuning problems....I myself haven't used it for a very long time as I don't trust any of the samples...and did I mention I paid $300 for it!

I still use it, but not as much. I have tried fine tuning the basses I liked. Some worked some didn't. I have been trying to decide ona replacement but cannot. Wish someone could make up my mind for me :-)

I feel kinda sorry for anyone that has paid full price for it. Since I have it because it was bundled with 8.0 I can pretty much dismiss it, although it isn't COMPLETELY useless. When I upgrade I really don't pay much attention to the "freeby" stuff, more what the core program will give me. If we happen to get a decent plug-in then it's a cherry on the cake ... SD3 being a case in point.

See also this (more recent) thread!

-Susan

I can imagine and maybe even sympathize with the spate of excuses and justifications for most of the Sonar bugs and things not working correctly. 
However, proper tuning in a flagship DAW is pretty much just ridiculous.